Goodreads Synopsis:
The State controls your emotions. What would you pay to feel free?

In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the sixteen-year-old daughter of New Earth’s Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors and provokes emotion. But when her long-time crush, Danny Mayhew, gets into a dangerous altercation on Old Earth, Violet launches a secret investigation to find out what he's hiding. An investigation that will lead her to question everything she's ever known about Danny, her father, and the power of the Intercept.

My Review:
I received an arc of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I chose this book specifically because I like books about technology and the future. The cover is eye catching and the description sounded intriguing and I'm glad I read it.

What's more important? Safety or freedom? Violet is a sixteen year old girl with a job working for the government helping pilot the intercept, a massively important piece of technology that not only keeps track of everyone's emotion on new and old earth, but can use their worst and best memories and feelings against them rather than using physical violence when say, arresting someone. This tech is implanted in every citizen, and along with the camera's, easily surveys their little world.

It starts off with Violet watching a police chase with her friend Danny, down on Old Earth, through her computer with her work partner Rez, on New Earth. The perp is attacked and "intercepted" at the end of the chase, by intercepted meaning using the computers Violet and Rez are able to use the Intercept and implant an old and very painful memory into his head to completely shut him down. But Violet always feels weird about her job. Most of her thoughts throughout the book are about whether or not this is actually the right thing to do or not, to keep everyone safe by being literally inside their heads and tracking their emotions, or to let people have free reign of their own bodies.

Overall I really enjoyed this book and I'm glad I picked it to read next. Although I finished it a couple days after I received the copy, I waited to upload my review to the internet as the publisher requested. It's action packed and sucked me right into the story from the moment I started reading it. It kept me on the edge of my seat wondering what would be happening next. I couldn't put it down. The characters are lifelike and although they're in a Utopia hovering over top an apocalyptic wasteland, I think they really seem like people you could know and react realistically to their situations. The world they live in is so interesting. I definitely recommend you check it out for yourself if you haven't already.

Here's a link to the book on amazon, and another link to the authors twitter.

https://www.amazon.ca/Dark-Intercept-Julia-Keller/dp/076538762X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UT...

https://twitter.com/DarkIntercept

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